Re: F26 Self Contained Change: BIND version 9.11

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Jan Kurik <jkurik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> = Proposed Self Contained Change: BIND version 9.11 =
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BIND_9.11
>
> Change owner(s):
> * Tomas Hozza <thozza AT redhat DOT com>
> * Michal Ruprich <mruprich AT redhat DOT com>
>
> BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) version 9.11 is the latest stable
> major update of the widely used DNS server. Besides new features, some
> settings defaults have changed since the previous major version
> (9.10).
>
> == Detailed Description ==
> FULL BIND 9.11 RELEASE NOTES:
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.11.0b3/RELEASE-NOTES-bind-9.11.0b3.txt
>
> New features
> * A new method of provisioning secondary servers called "Catalog
> Zones" has been added.
> * Added an isc.rndc Python module, which allows rndc commands to be
> sent from Python programs.
> * Added support for DynDB, a new interface for loading zone data from
> an external database, developed by Red Hat for the FreeIPA project.
> * New quotas have been added to limit the queries that are sent by
> recursive resolvers to authoritative servers experiencing
> denial-of-service attacks.
> * Added support for dnstap, a fast, flexible method for capturing and
> logging DNS traffic.
> * A new DNSSEC key management utility, dnssec-keymgr, has been added.
> * nslookup will now look up IPv6 as well as IPv4 addresses by default.
> * named will now check to see whether other name server processes are
> running before starting up.
> * Added server-side support for pipelined TCP queries.
> * The new mdig command is a version of dig that sends multiple
> pipelined queries and then waits for responses, instead of sending one
> query and waiting the response before sending the next.
> * A new message-compression option can be used to specify whether or
> not to use name compression when answering queries.
> * When loading a signed zone, named will now check whether an RRSIG's
> inception time is in the future, and if so, it will regenerate the
> RRSIG immediately.
>
> Feature changes
> * When using native PKCS#11 cryptography (i.e., configure
> --enable-native-pkcs11) HSM PINs of up to 256 characters can now be
> used.
> * Update forwarding performance has been improved by allowing a single
> TCP connection to be shared between multiple updates.
> * Added support for OPENPGPKEY type.
> * Retrieving the local port range from net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range on
> Linux is now supported.
> * On machines with 2 or more processors (CPU), the default value for
> the number of UDP listeners has been changed to the number of detected
> processors minus one.
> * Zone transfers now use smaller message sizes to improve message
> compression. This results in reduced network usage.
> * Added support for the AVC resource record type (Application
> Visibility and Control).
>
> == Scope ==
> Proposal owners:
> * Rebase the package to the latest 9.11 minor version and resolve
> possible packaging issues. (Also rebuild all currently existing
> dependent packages listed below)

Any idea if we can move back to building the dhcp package against the
latest version and retire bind99? I don't remember the exact bugs we
saw against 9.10 with dhcp (although I do vaguely remember some issue
that forced the change).
_______________________________________________
devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux